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NIH cut would cost UAB $70 million, threaten jobs and ‘life-saving research’ in Alabama
- Updated: Feb. 11, 2025, 11:09 a.m.
Northeast, California & Chicago Universities would be less affected.
Some red state universities could shut down.
The University of Alabama is the largest employer in Alabama. In 2023 NIH grants in Alabama supported 4,769 jobs for an economic impact of $909 million,” They impact almost 13,000 jobs at more than 1,200 businesses, it was noted.
Hint, Earth Emperor Elon sees Alabama residents including Senator Katie Britt as his serfs.
Republican Senator FREAKS OUT Over Trump Cuts
"A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to hold off on a plan that would cut $4 billion in federal funding for research at the nation’s universities, cancer centers and hospitals.
The funds disbursed by the National Institutes of Health cover the administrative and overhead costs for a vast swath of biomedical research, some of which is directed at tackling diseases like cardiovascular, cancer and diabetes.
The order was issued by Judge Angel Kelley for the U.S. District Court in Boston late Monday night in response to a lawsuit filed by university associations and major research centers that had argued that the “flagrantly unlawful action” by U.S. health officials “will devastate medical research at America’s universities.”
The temporary restraining order by Judge Kelley, a Biden appointee, expanded on a similar order that was granted earlier Monday after nearly two dozen attorneys general sued to stop the cuts in their states.
The Trump administration’s plan to cap agreed-upon payments that universities and health systems receive to support research rocked the academic medical world when it was abruptly announced Friday.
Academic researchers and university officials predicted that the plan would shut down valuable studies, cost thousands of jobs and kneecap the United States in competitive efforts to achieve medical breakthroughs.
The plan applied to $9 billion of the $35 billion in grants issued to research institutions. That quarter of the total research funding supports so-called indirect costs that apply to expenses for administrative overhead, including, for example, staff and building or lab operations and maintenance.
The Trump administration said it wanted to cut such funds roughly in half, by about $4 billion.”
On Friday, Katie Miller, a member of the effort by Elon Musk to slash the size of the federal government, posted on social media: “President Trump is doing away with Liberal D.E.I. Deans’ slush fund…”
Universities hold a starkly different view. The funds support scientific breakthroughs that “are becoming more frequent and more consequential,” Dr. Alan M. Garber, the president of Harvard University, said in a statement on Sunday.
“At a time of rapid strides in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, brain science, biological imaging and regenerative biology, and when other nations are expanding their investment in science, America should not drop knowingly and willingly from her lead position on the endless frontier,” Dr. Garber said.
The plaintiffs, including the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, claimed that the sudden funding cut would “wreak havoc” on critical research and ultimately force universities to lay off staff, close laboratories and shutter certain research programs altogether…
If the funding cutbacks were to survive legal challenges, the plaintiffs wrote, “research laboratories would literally go dark for lack of electricity.”
Smaller institutions, they argued, might not be able to sustain any research and “could close entirely.”
Congress thwarted an earlier effort during the first term of President Trump to cut indirect research funding. Lawmakers added measures to budget bills to ensure that the funds remained at the levels agreed upon by researchers and federal officials.
In the lawsuit, the association of universities argued that the current proposal violated the will of Congress and also defied standard administrative procedures.
In granting the temporary halt to the cutbacks, Judge Kelley ruled that the plaintiffs would “sustain immediate and irreparable injury.”
A hearing date was set for Feb. 21.
The New York Times
Court Pause on Trump Cuts to Medical Research Funds Is Expanded Nationwide
The federal order temporarily halts the Trump administration’s plans to slash $4 billion in overhead costs for research at universities and medical centers into diseases like cancer.
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